Example sentences of "[vb past] made [adj] effort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the boards we studied in more depth had made serious efforts to understand their duties and responsibilities . |
| 2 | In his letter Prawiro said that Indonesia had made great efforts to forge a relationship with the Netherlands after " an exceedingly painful historical past resulting from centuries of inhuman colonial subjugation " . |
| 3 | The previous day the United States had suspended US$94,900,000 in aid , alleging that Peru had made insufficient efforts to control drug trafficking . |
| 4 | In chapter 2 it was pointed out that the Thatcher government had made strong efforts to curb overall local government expenditure . |
| 5 | She had made gallant efforts to pull herself together but had still been confused about the precise sequence of events between arriving at the church and the moment when she had pushed open the door of the Little Vestry . |
| 6 | Tavrov compared the achievements of North Korea with the failures in South Korea , remarking that the American imperialists had made strenuous efforts to handicap the independent , democratic spirit of the Korean people : |
| 7 | Although PLO chairman Yassir Arafat had made strenuous efforts to ensure a consensus within the organization in advance of the PNC meeting , neither Hamas nor the Damascus-based Palestine National Salvation Front ( PNSF ) and its affiliated organizations attended the Algiers session , while representatives of Islamic Jihad attended only in an independent capacity . |
| 8 | Frank Williams would n't reveal whether he had made last-ditch efforts to persuade Mansell to drive on . |
| 9 | At a banquet held in his honour in the Chinese capital Beijing , his host , Lu Ping , Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of China 's State Council , referred to Wilson as " our old friend " who , over the years , had made unremitting efforts to promote mutual trust and co-operation between the UK and China on the Hong Kong issue , on the basis of the Sino-British Joint Declaration , and had made useful contributions to the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong . |
| 10 | A cardinal error had obviously been made , as the paper had made huge efforts beforehand to consult pressure groups about tackling their subject in an approved fashion . |
| 11 | But the DoH had made huge efforts to provide training for home helps through the training support grant and NVQs . |
| 12 | Chairman Judith Eyles said : ‘ You were responding to an acute emergency and had made considerable efforts to avoid driving . ’ |
| 13 | Ulster 's Lord Chief Justice Hutton said Christie had carefully planned the murder and had made sustained efforts to evade being caught , showing that her ‘ residual mental responsibility was very considerable . ’ . |
| 14 | The parents of these five children had made some effort to give the children pride in racial background . |
| 15 | Windows was pre-installed and Western Systems had made some effort to configure it — the permanent swap file was installed ; a minor chore that 's commonly overlooked . |
| 16 | Mrs Diggory had made some effort , and the little room was at least warm from a small fire in the grate , and there was a down coverlet on the narrow cot bed . |
| 17 | He would not , I am sure , have understood the significance of the convolvulus ; or , if he had made any effort , he would still have got it wrong . |